Chapter Summaries

Xu Zimo defeated Pig Tiangang and revealed that he was the man Pig Tiangang had believed dead after the Heavenly Dao’s punishment. He then demanded entry to the Fire Mountain gate, leaving Feng Jiu and Elder Jin to decide how to respond.

• Xu Zimo severed Pig Tiangang’s legs and arms, then pinned him down as Pig Tiangang continued trying to attack.
• Xu Zimo used the Power of Time and Space to make Pig Tiangang remember the battle where the Sixteen Demon Races had seen Xu Zimo apparently killed by the Heavenly Dao.
• Pig Tiangang recognized Xu Zimo, pleaded for the Demon Race, and was annihilated by Xu Zimo’s blade.
• Xu Zimo demanded that the defenders open the Fire Mountain gate or face him breaking through.
• Feng Jiu asked Elder Jin whether they could stop Xu Zimo, and Elder Jin said they probably could not.

Xu Zimo confronted the Demonfire Phoenix Lineage and revealed that he had killed their ancestor, the Pure Yang Phoenix Emperor. After learning that the Enlightenment Great Emperor’s descendants once lived at Demon Soul Cliff, he left the clan facing its crisis and daring not challenge him.

• Feng Jiu and the other leaders welcomed Xu Zimo into Flaming Mountain after deciding not to oppose him.
• Xu Zimo told Feng Jiu that he had killed the Pure Yang Phoenix Emperor, leaving the gathered demons terrified.
• Xu Zimo asked about the Enlightenment Great Emperor, and Elder Dog said the emperor’s descendants had lived at Demon Soul Cliff.
• Elder Dog explained that the descendants might still be hidden in the mountains, though the Tyrannosaur Race had occupied the region.
• Xu Zimo warned Feng Jiu that he would await any attempt at revenge, then ended the meeting.

Baotian ordered the Demon Race to hunt down the human who killed Pig Tiangang, while Xu Zimo found Demon Soul Cliff and discovered the hiding place of Zhongshan Xue and Zhongshan God. The White Howling Tigers spotted Xu Zimo as he approached their territory.

• A Demon Race messenger told Baotian that Pig Tiangang had been killed, and Baotian ordered his forces to find and kill the human responsible.
• Xu Zimo followed Elder Hound's directions, found Demon Soul Cliff, and spotted several figures at its depths.
• Zhongshan Xue and Zhongshan God hid in a cave, fearing the Demon Race and worrying that their cracked protective jade pendant meant their ancestor had fallen.
• Over a dozen White Howling Tigers searched the area around Demon Soul Cliff while discussing Baotian's campaign and the humans nearby.
• The White Howling Tigers heard Xu Zimo approach, recognized him as a human, and greeted him with cruel smiles.

Xu Zimo rescued Zhong Mountain God and Zhong Shanxue from the White Howling Tigers and questioned them about the Enlightenment Lineage. Zhong Mountain God revealed that a purple crystal at their ancestral grounds might be tied to the Enlightenment Great Emperor’s disappearance.

• Xu Zimo killed the White Howling Tigers after they failed to answer his questions about the Enlightenment Lineage.
• Xu Zimo called Zhong Mountain God and Zhong Shanxue out of their cave and promised to take them to the Jade Pool if Zhong Mountain God answered him.
• Zhong Mountain God explained that the Enlightenment Lineage’s protective jade pendant had failed, leading the White Howling Tigers to hunt down his family.
• Zhong Mountain God told Xu Zimo that his father had entrusted him with knowledge of a purple crystal said to change fate and possibly relate to their ancestor’s disappearance.
• Zhong Mountain God said the crystal remained at the Enlightenment Lineage’s ancestral grounds.

Xu Zimo brought Mountain God and Mountain Snow to the Enlightenment Lineage’s ruins, where Mountain God retrieved a mysterious crystal from the Enlightenment Tower. Xu Zimo recognized it as resembling a crystal he already possessed just as the White Howling Tiger clan’s army arrived outside, and he began examining the object.

• Xu Zimo took the Mountain God siblings to the burning ancestral grounds of the Enlightenment Lineage.
• Mountain God led Xu Zimo and Mountain Snow into the undamaged Enlightenment Tower and explained its history.
• Mountain God used his bloodline to draw a box containing a mysterious crystal from the Dao Rhyme on the tower’s third floor.
• Xu Zimo recognized that the crystal resembled one he had obtained on the Yuanyang Continent.
• Mountain Snow spotted several hundred White Howling Tiger clan members approaching the tower, while Xu Zimo opened the box and examined the crystal.

Xu Zimo tested the Enlightenment Lineage’s crystal and entered a hidden space, where a mysterious speaker from beyond the domain began to reveal a secret before an interruption forced him out. The crystal then closed, leaving Xu Zimo with only a cryptic clue as the White Roaring Tiger clan surrounded the building.

• Mountain God Zhong gave Xu Zimo the crystal, and Xu Zimo promised to keep him and his sister safe before offering to take them to the Jade Pool.
• Hu Fu explained that the White Roaring Tiger clan had surrounded the building to capture the last two Enlightenment Lineage siblings and uncover their family’s hidden treasures.
• Xu Zimo discovered that the crystal responded only to divine souls and let it pull his consciousness into another space.
• A mysterious speaker called Xu Zimo the fated one, identified themself as someone from beyond the domain, and began to speak before the space erupted and expelled Xu Zimo.
• Xu Zimo considered how the clue might relate to the Nine Domains World, then found that the crystal had temporarily closed.

Xu Zimo annihilated the White Howling Tiger army with a single burst of blade intent and killed Hu Fu and his Dharma Protector. As a much larger force approached, Mountain God realized the Tyrannosaurus race had come for Xu Zimo, while Baotian neared the area.

• Xu Zimo told Mountain God and Mountain Snow to remain inside the Apocalypse Tower while he faced the White Howling Tigers.
• Hu Fu ordered his army to charge and capture Xu Zimo alive.
• Xu Zimo released blade intent from Overlord Shadow, killing several hundred White Howling Tigers without swinging his blade.
• Hu Fu charged Xu Zimo, who stabbed him and then split him and the Dharma Protector apart with blade intent.
• Mountain God saw the Tyrannosaurus race's banner and suspected they had come for Xu Zimo.
• Baotian approached with his army and learned that the area belonged to the White Howling Tiger race.

Xu Zimo waited calmly as Baotian led the Tyrannosaurus clan and a vast Demon Race army to confront him over Zhu Tiangang’s death. When Baotian ordered the demons to attack, Xu Zimo drew his blade against the charging horde.

• Baotian suspected Xu Zimo had wiped out the White Roaring Tiger clan and warned that they should not provoke him.
• Mountain God Zhongshan warned Xu Zimo that the Demon Race army was approaching, but Xu Zimo chose to wait and fight.
• Mountain God Zhongshan and Zhongshan Xue decided to stay and trust Xu Zimo rather than flee the Cang Xuan Domain.
• Baotian confronted Xu Zimo and confirmed that he had killed Zhu Tiangang, but Xu Zimo challenged him to attack alone or with everyone.
• Baotian ordered his demons to swarm Xu Zimo while he hung back to test his strength, and Xu Zimo prepared to strike with Overlord Shadow.

Xu Zimo slaughtered the Demon Race army with one slash, then faced the five remaining Demon Kings after Baotian fled. He killed the Sun-Chasing Eagle Demon, the Nine-Foot Centipede, and the Three-Headed Lion-Tiger, while the Weakwater Ant and Blazing Black Lin remained in the fight.

• Xu Zimo killed the Demon Race army with one slash, leaving the Demon Kings and the Zhong siblings stunned.
• Baotian fled, leaving the Sun-Chasing Eagle Demon, Nine-Foot Centipede, Three-Headed Lion-Tiger, Blazing Black Lin, and Weakwater Ant to face Xu Zimo.
• The Sun-Chasing Eagle Demon attacked with a blazing sun, which Xu Zimo deflected back to kill it.
• Xu Zimo cut the charging Nine-Foot Centipede into pieces, leaving three Demon Kings alive.
• The Weakwater Ant attacked with its heavy weakwater as the Blazing Black Lin and Three-Headed Lion-Tiger joined the assault.
• Xu Zimo hurled the weakwater at the Blazing Black Lin, crushed the Three-Headed Lion-Tiger's torrents, and slammed one of its heads into the ground, killing it.

Xu Zimo killed Baotian after defeating the Blazing Black Qilin and the other Demon Kings, then discovered that the crystal absorbed the demons’ blood energy and restored itself. When he entered the crystal again, he met a Green-robed Man, who began showing him a transformed space.

• Xu Zimo crushed the five Demon Kings and pursued Baotian across the void to the Yellow Earth Demon Sands.
• Baotian transformed into a tyrannosaur and attacked Xu Zimo’s giant hand, but Xu Zimo overwhelmed him and dragged him back.
• Baotian offered to help Xu Zimo rule the Cang Xuan Domain, but Xu Zimo rejected the offer and killed him.
• Xu Zimo discovered that the crystal had absorbed the Demon Race’s blood energy and turned an eerie red.
• Xu Zimo entered the crystal and met a Green-robed Man, who changed the space around them to reveal a Milky Way and countless stars.

The Green-robed Man explained that the universe contained countless worlds and that Nine Domains World had sealed itself off after its founder died. He described World Source and Time Sand, confirmed the Enlightenment Great Emperor had escaped the world, and left Xu Zimo facing a demand to sign a cosmic contract before learning how to leave.

• The Green-robed Man showed Xu Zimo a star-filled view of the universe and explained that each point of light represented a world.
• He identified Nine Domains World as a closed world isolated by its Heavenly Dao after the death of the Nine Domains Immortal Venerable.
• The Green-robed Man explained that worlds depended on World Source and that powerful beings contended for it to strengthen their own worlds.
• He identified the crystal as Time Sand and asked whether Xu Zimo wanted to leave Nine Domains World to see the greater universe.
• The Green-robed Man confirmed that the Enlightenment Great Emperor had left using spacetime sand, then demanded Xu Zimo sign a cosmic contract before revealing how.

Xu Zimo rejected the Green-robed Man’s offer to leave Nine Domains Star in exchange for serving the Wu family for one hundred years, insisting that he would defy heaven and leave by his own strength. He learned that the Green-robed Man had tried to control the Thousand Calamities Apocalypse, and revealed that he had also come for the Glazed Immortal Realm.

• The Green-robed Man presented Xu Zimo with a universe-rule oath requiring him to serve the Wu family of Martial God Star for one hundred years in exchange for leaving Nine Domains Star, but Xu Zimo shattered it.
• Xu Zimo told the Green-robed Man that he would defy heaven and leave Nine Domains Star by his own strength, while the Green-robed Man warned that the Great Dao was sealed.
• Xu Zimo asked about the Thousand Calamities Apocalypse, and the Green-robed Man revealed that he had planned to control him as a spokesperson but heavenly punishment interrupted the attempt.
• The Green-robed Man realized Xu Zimo had come partly because of the Thousand Calamities Apocalypse, and Xu Zimo said he had also come for the Glazed Immortal Realm.

Xu Zimo bargained with the Green-robed Man to treat Thousand Calamities Apocalypse, offering to introduce him to the Sacred Ancestor in exchange. After signing a contract, Xu Zimo remained committed to felling Heaven and kept his own plan for the world source secret.

• Xu Zimo offered to help the Green-robed Man find a successor by arranging a meeting with the Sacred Ancestor.
• The Green-robed Man agreed to treat Thousand Calamities Apocalypse if Xu Zimo fulfilled that promise, and they signed a contract governed by the rules of the universe.
• Xu Zimo sensed the contract's intangible restraint and examined the vastness of the universal rules.
• The Green-robed Man again urged Xu Zimo to join him, but Xu Zimo refused and resolved to claim the world source if he felled Heaven.
• Xu Zimo asked the Green-robed Man to explain the Bone-Eroding Insect.

Xu Zimo learned that the Gengzhi Bird could cure Thousand Calamities Apocalypse’s Bone-Eroding Worms and headed to the Demonfire Phoenix Clan to find one. Feng Jiu learned that Xu Zimo had destroyed Bao Tian’s forces and appeared above Feng Qiu Huang, leaving her terrified that he might attack her clan.

• The Green-robed Man told Xu Zimo that a Gengzhi Bird fed on Bone-Eroding Worm mucus and could cure Thousand Calamities Apocalypse.
• Xu Zimo chose to stay on his own path, then asked Mountain God about finding a Gengzhi Bird.
• Mountain God explained that Gengzhi Birds were rare divine-soul demon beasts and said the Demonfire Phoenix Clan had kept some in captivity.
• Xu Zimo took Mountain God and his sister through the void to the Demonfire Phoenix ancestral grounds, intending to find a bird before escorting them to the Jade Pool.
• Elder Jin reported that Xu Zimo had killed Bao Tian and his forces with one slash, then warned Feng Jiu that Xu Zimo had appeared above Feng Qiu Huang.
• Feng Jiu feared Xu Zimo would destroy her clan, but followed Elder Jin’s advice and went with several elders to meet him.

Xu Zimo found the Gengzhi Birds in the Demonfire Phoenix clan’s treasury and used them to kill the black insect inside Thousand Calamities Apocalypse, restoring his divine soul. As Thousand Calamities Apocalypse began to awaken, Feng Jiu left the treasury and prepared to lead her clan’s return to power.

• Feng Jiu asked Elder Jin about the Gengzhi Birds, and he recalled that the clan had once kept them in its treasury.
• Feng Jiu led Xu Zimo and the others into the treasury, where Xu Zimo used his divine soul to find the birds’ hidden cage.
• Xu Zimo released two Gengzhi Birds, which entered Thousand Calamities Apocalypse and killed the black insect devouring his divine soul.
• Xu Zimo dismissed Feng Jiu and her clan, and Feng Jiu urged the clan’s elders to seize the chance to reclaim the region.
• Thousand Calamities Apocalypse regained consciousness, opened his eyes, and warily asked who was there.

After Xu Zimo saved Thousand Calamities Apocalypse from the black insect and the Green-robed Man’s scheme, he asked him for a fight to temper his Great Way. Their battle erupted above the demons, whose lives were endangered by the destruction below.

• Thousand Calamities Apocalypse thanked Xu Zimo for saving him and promised to repay the debt, but Xu Zimo asked him to fight instead.
• Thousand Calamities Apocalypse explained that the Green-robed Man had deceived him and tried to make him an agent in the Nine Domains World.
• Xu Zimo and Thousand Calamities Apocalypse took their battle into the void, where their blade and scythe clashed with overwhelming force.
• Feng Jiu ordered the demons to take cover, but the battle’s shockwaves shattered their protective formation and injured many of them.
• Elder Jin led Feng Jiu and the others away as Thousand Calamities Apocalypse ignored the demons and summoned his True Fate phenomenon.

Xu Zimo defeated the Thousand Calamities Apocalypse in a battle that destroyed the ancestral land of Phoenix Seeks Phoenix, then said he was heading to Jade Pool. He left the defeated ruler alive and went to find the Zhongshan God siblings and the others who had fled the fight.

• The Thousand Calamities Apocalypse unleashed countless Great Way calamities, but Xu Zimo cleaved through them and wounded it with Overlord Shadow.
• Xu Zimo enlarged himself with Law Manifests Heaven and Earth and overpowered the Thousand Calamities Apocalypse, which summoned divine and ghost giants to fight him.
• Xu Zimo smashed the giants apart and struck the Thousand Calamities Apocalypse down, razing the ancestral land of Phoenix Seeks Phoenix.
• The Thousand Calamities Apocalypse admitted defeat, and Xu Zimo told it he would seek it out when he needed it and that he was heading to Jade Pool.
• Xu Zimo found the Zhongshan God siblings hiding beneath a cliff with Feng Jiu, Elder Jin, and the others.

After the battle in the Ghost God Domain, Xu Zimo searched for a meteorite tied to the True Martial Great Emperor and brought Mountain God and his sister to Jade Pool. They arrived as Jade Pool opened recruitment for disciples, where a fat man offered to help them cut in line.

• Xu Zimo confirmed that the person he had fought was the ruler of the Ghost God Domain and asked whether anyone had seen a meteor streak across the sky, but Elder Jin and the others had not.
• Xu Zimo took Mountain God and his sister through the void, leaving Feng Jiu to deal with the battle’s aftermath and a weakened, divided Demon Race.
• Xu Zimo arrived with his companions at the bustling foothills of Kunlun Mountain, where Jade Pool stood as a refuge from the chaos.
• After hearing that Jade Pool had opened recruitment for disciples, Xu Zimo led his companions to Azure Dragon Plaza.
• A fat man offered Xu Zimo a chance to cut in line for the Jade Pool assessment in exchange for help from someone at the front.

Xu Zimo returned to Azure Dragon Square and reunited with Wang Ya, who was leading Jade Pool’s recruitment. She accepted the Mountain God siblings on his recommendation and ended recruitment for the day, leaving the frustrated crowd with no recourse.

• Fatty Zhou tried to sell Xu Zimo and the Mountain God siblings spots in Jade Pool’s recruitment, but Xu Zimo said he could enter with a word and asked who was in charge.
• Xu Zimo opened a path through the packed crowd with a wave and led the Mountain God siblings toward Wang Ya.
• Wang Ya recognized Xu Zimo as Big Brother Xu, welcomed him back, and agreed to let the siblings join Jade Pool.
• Wang Ya confronted Fatty Zhou about selling recruitment slots, and he apologized to Xu Zimo for mocking him.
• Wang Ya announced recruitment was over for the day and told the protesting crowd that they could choose not to join Jade Pool.

Xu Zimo arrived at Jade Pool and asked the Queen Mother of the West to fight him so he could temper his Great Dao. The Queen Mother agreed and revealed Jade Pool’s two strongest treasures, the Kunlun Mirror and the Heaven-Peering Dharma Staff, to Jiang Chenyu.

• Wang Ya led Xu Zimo and the Mountain God siblings into Jade Pool, where she arranged accommodations for the siblings.
• Xu Zimo told Wang Ya he wanted to battle the Queen Mother of the West, and Wang Ya brought him to the Peach Garden.
• The Queen Mother of the West welcomed Xu Zimo and agreed to spar with him after he drew Overlord Shadow and explained that he sought to temper his Great Dao.
• The Queen Mother of the West told Jiang Chenyu to watch and summoned the Kunlun Mirror above Kunlun Mountain.
• The Queen Mother of the West presented the Heaven-Peering Dharma Staff as Jade Pool’s second inherited treasure.